Action

Using Central Administration, create content deployment paths and configure content deployment jobs to run as specified when planning the system.

Test that the content deployment jobs run as expected and document how to run content deployment jobs.

Document standards for setting up content deployment jobs.

Outcome

Functioning content deployment system.

Operations documentation that describes how to run content deployment jobs.

Resources

• Administer content deployment

• End-to-End Content Deployment Walkthrough (white paper)

Action

• Add the authoring farm to the already-configured SSP that provides services to multiple Office SharePoint Server 2007 collaboration farms. Using an SSP across farms provides centralized administration of services and also reduces the number of services that provide the same role.

  • Update the search settings, such as crawl rules, at the farm level and the search settings, such as scopes, at the site-collection level in the authoring farm.

  • Crawl the authoring farm.

  • Test that search returns expected results for the authoring farm.

• Configure the SSP on the production farm to provide search results to the users of the Internet site.

  • Set the search settings, such as crawl rules, on the farm level and the search settings, such as scopes, on the site-collection level.

  • Crawl the production farm.

  • Test that search returns expected results on the production site.

Outcome

Search results are available for both sites.

Operations documentation that describes how to configure search.

Resources

• Plan SSP architecture See the Inter-farm SSP examples.

• Configure the Office SharePoint Server Search service (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage search scopes (Office SharePoint Server)

• Getting your content crawled (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Crawl content (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Action

Configure the authoring farm as the SSP for the business data catalog.

• Configure the access account.

• Configure authorization and shared services permissions for site administrators of the Internet presence site.

Outcome

Functioning business data catalog shared service.

Service configured to support the career opportunities database.

Resources

• Business data catalog (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=119921)

• Plan for business data connections with the Business Data Catalog

• Configure access to business data

Action

1. Have the database team add the SQL Server databases for Office SharePoint Server to their backup system, on the agreed-upon schedule.

   BackupSchedule

   Authoring farm databasesFull backups: 02:30 – 05:00 dailyDifferential backups, every 15 minutes

   Production farm databasesFull backups Thursday night (before content deployment)

   Failover farm databasesRun full backups only, before and after patching

2. Configure the SharePoint backups for each farm.

   BackupSchedule

   Authoring farmNone

   Production farmSaturday (after content deployment), back up the SSP, so that Search is backed up

   Failover farmNone

   Test farm recovery by using both SQL Server and SharePoint backups.

3. Document how to back up and recover the farm.

Outcome

Functioning backup and recovery system.

Operations documentation that describes how to back up and recover successfully.

Resources

• Back up a farm by using SQL Server tools (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Back up and restore a farm (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Backup, Recovery, and Availability Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129402)

Action

Provide the Database maintenance (Office SharePoint Server 2007) white paper to your database administration team, and ask members of the team to implement the recommendations that it contains.

Outcome

Well-maintained databases.

Operations documentation that describes how to maintain databases that host a SharePoint farm successfully.

Resources

Database maintenance (Office SharePoint Server 2007)